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Are Telltale making a Walking Dead game?
Speculation is rife that adventure games developer Telltale are working on a title based on The Walking Dead. Read on for the details. The guys at 1-UP have received an invitation from the studio...
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Extra Telltale announcements
Surprise! (Or not.) Telltale confirmed that it’s working on a Walking Dead episodic adventure game based on the comic (which is also the basis for the hit AMC TV show). Telltale says it won’t be an...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead gameplay footage leaks
Update: Telltale has removed the video from YouTube. We were told the footage leaked from PartnerNet, a developer-only debug version of Xbox Live. We stumbled on this gameplay video of Telltale’s...
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The Walking Dead review
Adapting something already-beloved into a game isn’t a job anyone should want. Games have their own set of restrictions and expectations, and designing around those while trying to execute your own...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #315 – Many arrows, many knees
Elder Scrolls Online, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Company of Heroes 2 were all announced this week. With almost too much information to take in, we keep our brains intact by talking about what we...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead interview discusses design, what got cut: “There was a solid...
The Walking Dead won us over. It’s still a little wild to me that Telltale manged to make a compact, interaction-light game as emotionally affecting as it was. Above, Sean Vanaman, Episode 1′s writer,...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Episode 2 available Friday, spoiler-laden recap video and...
The second episode of Telltale’s excellent game adaptation of The Walking Dead releases this Friday. In prep, Telltale has put out a trailer (above) and a video recap that summarizes the choices made...
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PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 71 – Wordless Yelling
Apologies for the delay in getting this week’s podcast to you, listeners. We had a technical issue whereby Chris’ voice was very very quiet. It took a long time before we realised what was wrong: we...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #321 – Fantastic Voyage
Returning from a modest hiatus that wasn’t at all related to a time travel accident, we catch up on this week’s happenings: Valve happenings, Day Z happenings, Kickstarter happenings, and beyond. We...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #322 – Feline Mothership
Listen in on our comms this week as we discuss Fortnite, Sins of A Solar Empire: Rebellion, The War Z. Is copying the mechanics of a certain Arma 2 mod lazy, or is it simply the beginning of a new...
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Weekend Game Deals – Summer Sale vol. 2
STEAM Looked broke, didn’t I? Well, I wasn’t. But it wasn’t from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Steam’s last sale put me in the red — a debt I wasn’t to repay for one year. When it...
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The Walking Dead – Episode 2 review
Finishing an episode of The Walking Dead is the same feeling I get flipping the final page of a novel. It’s a confluence of resolution and reflection, a slow-developing brain Polaroid that’s handed to...
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PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 73 – Hammer vs. Deer
This week Owen, Chris and Tom Senior discuss the Source 2 rumours, SW:TOR free-to-play, the decline in WoW subscriptions and their very real and surprisingly detailed fear of vomiting uncontrollably...
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The Walking Dead creator on the Telltale game: “I’m really quite taken with it”
The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman recently spoke to IGN about Telltale’s episodic adventure game (also named The Walking Dead) based on his comics. He had some very positive things to say about...
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Weekend Game Deals – August 24, 2012
Thing I love about PC gaming #143: buying old games and buying a new games feels the same. Games get cheaper, but they don’t tumble into bargain bins. They get re-promoted. Communities of fans stick...
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The Walking Dead: Episode Three shambles onto the PC tomorrow
Ready to bust some more zombie heads? Telltale’s point-and-click series The Walking Dead gets its third episode, named “Long Road Ahead,” tomorrow for the PC through Steam, Origin, Amazon, GameStop,...
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Join us for the PC Gamer Megapanel at PAX!
If you’re going to this year’s PAX in Seattle, Washington, then we’d love for you to join us on Friday for an unprecedented gathering of PC gaming’s finest developers and storytellers at the The PC...
View ArticleWatch the PC Gamer PAX Megapanel livestream here at 2:30 pm PDT!
Join us live at PAX Prime in Seattle today for the PC Gamer Megapanel, featuring a discussion on “The Incredible, Uncertain Future of Storytelling” with the super-creative minds of Jake Solomon (XCOM:...
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Weekend Game Deals – September 21, 2012
This week’s best deals ► Borderlands 2, Saints Row: The Third, and more Amazon has 10% off Borderlands 2 – it’s not a lot, but it did just release – and a more substantial 40% off The Walking Dead....
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The Walking Dead: Episode Four trailer sets off Clem klaxon
Things are coming to a rotting, maggot-infested head in The Walking Dead: Episode Four, as evidenced by this pre-launch trailer featuring an inebriated and slightly unhinged Kenny (whoa), a hospital...
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The Walking Dead Episode 4 out tomorrow
It seems like it hasn’t been that long since we suffered through the emotional gauntlet of Telltale’s Walking Dead Episode 3, but a tweet has burst from the earth with a rasping rattle to inform us...
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PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 76 – An Incredible Amount of Forking
Graham, Rich, Chris and Tom F return after a long hiatus, discussing Little Inferno, XCOM, The Walking Dead, playing competitive games in order to relax, the ethics of teleportation, and what Worms...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #333 – No-scope Cornshot
Evan, Chuck, T.J. and Omri convene to collate this week’s news, recently-released games, and take a moment to talk about an XCOM mod. Along the way, we talk about the League of Legends Season Two...
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Steam Halloween Sale serial-killer slices prices up to 75 percent off
Valve slipped on its best Mike Myers mask today and took a particularly large knife to the prices of Steam’s stable of spooky-themed games in its Halloween Sale, a horde of 58 selections covering...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Episode 4 stats trailer collects morality, math
Can moral decisions be quantified? Telltale continues to put out these little statistical recaps preceding the release of new The Walking Dead episodes. This one, covering the major decisions made by...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Episode Five trailer shows climactic conflict, dramatic...
Clementine will survive. I will rescue her no matter the cost. She will surmount this nightmare—oh, sorry. This trailer for the November 21 season finale of Telltale’s excellent Walking Dead series...
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Black Friday deals: the best PC game and hardware sales on the web
Good news, everyone! Steam, Amazon, Blizzard, and more have kicked off Consumer Season by booby trapping the web with potent spending bait such as 33% off XCOM: Enemy Unknown, 50% off The Walking...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #338 – The Gawking Dead
Last week we recorded a pre-holiday episode, left for our traditional four day gaming/food binges, and have just now recovered enough to post it. Logan, Evan, Tyler, T.J., and Omri discuss what...
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The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman thinks Activision FPS “could be...
When Telltale approached Walking Dead comic creator Robert Kirkman with a proposal for an episodic adventure series based on his shambling works, he lauded the studio’s plan to approach it with...
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Ron Gilbert would “love to do episodic stuff,” thinks The Walking Dead proves...
While speaking to Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion creator Ron Gilbert at a preview event for The Cave today, I asked for his thoughts on Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and if he might consider an...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #339 – Designated Marksman
Lock, load, and roll out with T.J., Logan, Evan, and Tyler as we share our experiences on the war-torn battlefields of PlanetSide 2, and bring you news from every wavelength of the PC gaming spectrum....
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GameFly End of the World sale chops 75 percent off XCOM, Witcher 2, others
When facing the end of time as we know it through a cataclysmic prophecy, it’s time for a sale to mark history’s end with a bang. To wit, GameFly’s End of the World event nixes 75 percent off select...
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The Walking Dead’s first season now available in boxed version
Telltale’s episodic Walking Dead series of drama-laced survival hit shelves today as a boxed edition compiling all five episodes of the first season. Retailing exclusively at Best Buy stores for $30,...
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The Best Writing of the Year 2012: The Walking Dead
Writing is as much about structure as conversation and character. This year Telltale’s experimentation with the episodic format has finally worked. Their survival horror adventure game, The Walking...
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The Most Reassuring Absence of Bigotry of the Year 2012: The Walking Dead
Questions surrounding the portrayal of women in games, and the treatment of women in the games industry, have been with us throughout the year. Encouragingly, the resulting discussion, and events like...
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Telltale talks about its future beyond The Walking Dead
What other stories should Telltale turn into games? The adventure veterans at Telltale Games are keeping themselves busy fashioning the second season of The Walking Dead (which earned our Best Writing...
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The Walking Dead sold over 8.5 million episodes since release
Zombie sells. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal (via Eurogamer), Telltale Games co-founder Dan Connors said The Walking Dead adventure series has sold over 8.5 million episodes in total....
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Dishonored and The Walking Dead score high in Game Developers Choice Award...
The Game Developers Choice Awards are the other side of a coin that also contains the IGFs. Sure, indies are allowed into this GDC organised awards show, but they have to promise to be on their best...
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Telltale: “Anything is possible” for Walking Dead second season
Lee asks another citizen if he’s the lead character of The Walking Dead’s second season. Though a followup saga to the first season of The Walking Dead is as sure as a zombie-shaped surprise behind a...
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The Walking Dead and Far Cry 3 score big at BAFTA Video Game Award nominations
BAFTA have released the nomination shortlist for the upcoming 2013 round of their Video Game awards. PS3 exclusive Journey tops the nomination leaderboard – it’s up for eight categories. But...
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More Walking Dead possibly releasing before second season
Telltale previously said the upcoming second season of The Walking Dead’s continued tale can go in any direction, but eager fans might not have to wait until then for more of that sweet zombie-laden...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #346 – Some Kinda Pirate
Who is this new, rather unsubtle assassin in the reveal images for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag? Evan, T.J., and Omri discuss. SimCity and the Arma 3 alpha are both out next Tuesday, and we’re...
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